August 8, 2005—The group developing the Apache Software Foundation’s Derby database has released an upgrade to the software and the project has graduated from its “incubator” status to an Apache ...

Apache Derby, available under the Apache License Version 2.0, is a pure-Java relational database based on Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and SQL standards. Apache Derby occupies about 2 megabytes ...

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Java DB is a lightweight database management system (DBMS) that is written completely in Java. It only needs 2 MB of memory, and it makes it very easy to embed a fully functional database directly ...

JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). As Ruby and Ruby on Rails become more popular, JRuby becomes an interesting technology to ...

Microsoft recognized long ago that the way to a programmer’s heart is to simplify the heck out of their development efforts. VB6, the empowering champion of corporate developers the world over, was ...

The Apache Foundation has released the first version of the open-source Derby database, which also gained support from Sun Microsystems. Apache Derby is a Java database that IBM submitted to the ...